Maudie Powell-Tuck has been writing, editing, and dreaming about picture books for more than 12 years. She has worked in a children's bookstore and as an editor for a children's publisher, so she can enthuse about kids' books 'til the cows come home. When not writing or editing, Maudie can be found wandering around charity shops with her kids, reading, and watching embarrassingly trashy reality TV. She is forever losing her hearing aids and has dropped her phone 1,345,566 times. Miraculously it still works.

Duncan Beedie is a best-selling children's author and illustrator from Bristol. He has worked on a number of Tiger Tales titles, including the Agent Llama series by Angela Woolfe, The I Really, Really Need . . . series by Karl Newson, and his own story, Heavy Metal Badger, which has been nominated for several children's literature awards. When not drawing badgers, bears, and bush babies, Duncan likes to get out in the woods or sit in a comfy chair to read ghost stories.